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Michelle Cohen Corasanti

The Almond Tree, The

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  • iranaquluzadehas quoted5 years ago
    ‘I tell my children, go with what you’re passionate about. My childhood taught me that steady drops pierce rocks. I’ve learned that life isn’t about what happens to you, but about how you choose to react to it.
  • iranaquluzadehas quoted5 years ago
    ‘Peace brings security. Security doesn’t bring peace.’

    I thought of the Dalai Lama’s words which hung in Justice’s foyer. It went something like ‘If you want to experience peace, provide it for another, and if you want to feel safe, cause another to feel safe.’
  • iranaquluzadehas quoted5 years ago
    ‘As Bishop Desmond Tutu said, ‘If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.’
  • iranaquluzadehas quoted5 years ago
    ‘Good things make choosing difficult. Bad things leave no choice,’
  • iranaquluzadehas quoted5 years ago
    ‘When Einstein’s wife was dying, he wrote to a friend that intellectual work would lead him through all of life’s troubles,’ Menachem said. ‘You’d do well to follow his advice.’

    I slowly sat up in bed.

    ‘Take it from me, the only way to overcome the complexities of human emotions is to delve into science and try to explain the unexplained,’ he said.
  • iranaquluzadehas quoted5 years ago
    ‘Success in life isn’t about the number of failures we think we have, but about how we react to those failures.
  • iranaquluzadehas quoted5 years ago
    I’d marvelled that despite their exposure to beatings, arid landscape and fierce heat, the trees survived and bore new fruit year after year, century after century.

    I knew that their strength lay in their roots, which were so deep that even if the trees were cut down, they survived and sent forth shoots to create new generations. I always believed that my people’s strength, like the olive trees’, lay in our roots.
  • iranaquluzadehas quoted5 years ago
    ‘Hatred is self-punishment. Do you think they’re feeling bad because you hate them?’
  • iranaquluzadehas quoted5 years ago
    ‘If we avenge their actions, we’ll be even with them, but if we forgive them we’ll be ahead.’
  • iranaquluzadehas quoted5 years ago
    ‘Only forgiveness will set you free.’
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